The history and technique of lettering/ Alexander Nesbitt
Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, 1957Description: xvii, 300 pages: illustrations; 24cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: 43140ISBN: 9780486402819Subject(s): lettering | typographyDDC classification: 745.61 NES| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This comprehensive, well-illustrated volume ranges from the earliest pictographs and hieroglyphics to the work of 20th-century designers. Subjects include early writing forms; Roman lettering; runes and medieval hands; the Carolingian minuscule and derivative types; humanistic writing and derivative fonts; and much more. 89 complete alphabets and more than 165 additional specimens.
Unabridged and corrected publication of the work originally published in 1950 as Lettering: the history and technique of lettering as design
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